Voici une s�rie de conf�rences organis�e par l'asso de cycles sup�rieurs de
Concordia. Martine Poulin du comit� Femmes de l'ASS� et moi-m�me seront de
l'atelier du dimanche apr�s-midi sur la gr�ve. Notez que ces activit�s sont
gratuites mais en anglais
Philippe Gauvin,
secr�taire aux relations externes de l'ASS�
Subject: Invitation: Sept 16-18 conference (sponsored
by Concordia GSA)
(fwd)
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:00:20 -0400 (EDT)
Any of these issues interest you?
Grad Student Work and Unionization
Feminism in the Academy
Beyond the Academy
Privatization of Education
Intellectual Property and Grad Student Research
The 2005 Quebec Student Strike
Financial Survival Guide for Grads
If so, you should check out the conference schedule info below.
Registration is free.
Info will be updated on the GSA web site gsa.concordia.ca
Remember that there is a mixer in the Grad House with free refreshments
after the Keynote Address by Neil Tudiver on Friday Sept. 16.
See you there!
_____________________________________________
David Bernans
President
Concordia Graduate Students' Association (GSA)
2030 Mackay St., Suite 202
Montreal QC H3G 1J1
514-848-2424 ext.7900 fax:514-848-7904
http://gsa.concordia.ca
September 16-18, 2005 Conference
Graduate Student Contributions to Education and Research
Organized by the Concordia University Graduate Students' Association (GSA)
Grad Student Work and Unionization
Feminism in the Academy
Beyond the Academy
Privatization of Education
Intellectual Property and Grad Student Research
The 2005 Quebec Student Strike
Financial Survival Guide for Grads
With participation and/or support from:
Dr. Neil Tudiver - Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT)
Dr. Lillian Robinson - Simone de Beauvoir Institute
Graduate Group for Feminist Scholarship
UWatch
www.uwatch.ca
CUPE 3903 (York University)
S�TUE (Syndicat des �tudiant-e-s employ�-e-s) UQAM
AGSEM (Association of Graduate Students Employed at McGill)
Canadian Federation of Students - Quebec
F�d�ration �tudiante universitaire du Qu�bec (FEUQ)
Association pour une solidarit� syndicale �tudiante (ASS�)
Engineers Without Borders
Concordia Orientation Initiatives (COI)
Concordia University Part-time Faculty Association (CUPFA)
There are many ways that graduate students contribute to education and
research, and not all of them are within the narrowly defined academic
sphere. Graduate students played a part in the watershed 2005 Quebec
general unlimited student strike. Graduate students are taking part in
popular projects like Engineers Without Borders. They were involved in the
academic and extra-curricular activism that led to the creation of the
Women�s Studies field and graduate students continue to have a profound
influence on the evolution of this rapidly growing domain of study. The
academy itself is going through profound change, especially in graduate
studies. There are new diploma programs, more and more private business
programs, there is a greater emphasis on the creation of intellectual
property, and the list goes on. These recent developments have created
concerns among graduate students, especially among graduate students
involved in costly but potentially very lucrative research projects. What
is the relation of graduate students to the intellectual property they
produce? What is their relation to the professors and/or corporations they
do research for? These concerns dovetail with more longstanding graduate
student issues of campus research and education work and the question of
unionization. How are graduate student contributions to education and
research (as TAs, RAs and marker-graders) recognized, remunerated and
respected at union versus non-union Canadian universities? This is a
conference that will bring graduate students from Concordia together with
leaders and researchers from other Canadian universities to take a fresh
look at these questions with the collegial debate and the spirit of
inquiry that grads are known for.
Schedule: Friday September 16: Tudiver Keynote followed by Grad
House mixer
Saturday September 17 and Sunday September 18: Workshops.
All events are on Concordia�s downtown SGW campus.
Friday September 16: A keynote address by Dr. Neil Tudiver (Assistant
Executive Director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers)
followed by a discussion will take place in the late afternoon from
3:30-5:30pm at Concordia�s de S�ve Cinema, followed by a mixer with
refreshments at the Grad House.
Saturday and Sunday, September 17 and 18: there will be a series of
smaller workshops (2 hour blocks with short presentations by 1-3 workshop
leaders followed by discussion). The following workshops will all be
taking place in Concordia�s GM Building (corner of de Maisonneuve and
Guy) in room numbers 715, 725 and 302.
Saturday September 17
- 10am-12pm GM 715 - Grad student work and unionization 1: How are grad
student contributions to education and research recognized, remunerated
and respected at union vs. non-union Canadian universities? With special
guests from unionized universities (UQAM, McGill and York).
- 1pm-3pm GM 715 - Grad student work and unionization 2: Strategies for
change. With special guests from unionized universities (UQAM, McGill and
York).
- 3:15pm-5:15pm GM 715 - Privatization and University Life: An in-depth
discussion about the effects of increasing corporate influence on academic
research, curriculum and student life. With special guests from UWatch.
Sunday September 18
- 10am-12pm GM 715 - Grad student research and education beyond the
academy: How to reconcile graduate research and social engagement.
Engineers Without Borders and students from Concordia�s School of
Community and Public Affairs.
- 1pm-3pm GM 715 - Grad students and the 2005 Quebec-wide general
unlimited student strike: Views from FEUQ, ASS�, CFSQ and others.
- 1pm-3pm GM 302 - Show me the Money: Financial planning and resources for
graduate students with Jason F. Moschella (GSA VP Finance)
- 3:15pm-5:15pm GM 302 - Feminism and the Academy: How feminist students
and scholars have transformed research and pedagogy and what is left to be
done. With special guests from the Graduate Group for Feminist
Scholarship, Simone de Beauvoir Principal Lillian Robinson and Dr. Robyn
Diner (former Concordia graduate student).
*Special thanks to the Concordia University Part-time Faculty Association
(CUPFA) and the Concordia Orientation Initiatives (COI) fund without whose
support this conference would not be possible.
For more information contact the Concordia Graduate Students' Association
(GSA) at 514-848-2424 ext. 7900.
gsa.concordia.ca